Sandvine receives first Cloud Services Policy Controller order

WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 23, 2015 /CNW/ - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that Ubiscope, a provider of security, network and consulting services in South Korea will be using Sandvine's Cloud Services Policy Controller to offer innovative new services to their business customers.

Ubiscope selected Sandvine's Cloud Services Policy Controller because they required a best-of-breed, application-aware, network policy control solution that would provide the flexibility for IT managers to deploy real-time productivity controls across their network of business customers.

Sandvine's award winning Cloud Services Policy Controller allows communications service providers (CSPs) to efficiently address many business verticals with out-of-the-box use cases across three main service propositions:

• View - Access to real-time usage and historical reports for application level and Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics
• Control - Provide businesses with application-level control and prioritization over their network traffic
• Protect - Offer advanced network protection features to address a wide range of security requirements

Sandvine's Cloud Services Policy Controller is a completely virtualized platform, built upon the foundation of network functions virtualization (NFV) and is compatible with software-defined networking (SDN) standards. This framework enables on-demand, elastic provisioning for maximally efficient use of carrier cloud resources as well as a wealth of deployment options through integration with numerous provisioning systems, customer-premises equipment (CPE or Virtual CPE) devices, and other Ethernet access devices.

"Service innovation shouldn't be limited to an operator's consumer subscribers," said Tom Donnelly, COO, Sales & Global Services, Sandvine. "Sandvine's Cloud Services Policy Controller makes it easy for service providers and system integrators to now offer innovative network policy control solutions to their business and enterprise customers."

ABOUT SANDVINE

Sandvine's network policy control solutions add intelligence to fixed, mobile and converged communications service provider networks to enable services that can increase revenue and reduce network costs. Powered by Sandvine's Policy Engine and SandScript policy language, Sandvine's networking equipment performs end-to-end policy control functions including traffic classification, and policy decision and enforcement across the data, control and business planes.  Sandvine's products provide actionable business insight, the ability to deploy new subscriber services and tools to optimize traffic while enhancing subscriber Internet quality of experience.

Sandvine's network policy control solutions are deployed in more than 250 networks in over 90 countries, serving hundreds of millions of data subscribers worldwide, www.sandvine.com.

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